American Home Warranty phishing email with subject Home Warranty Repair and Replacement Coverage

For the record, this is an American Home Warranty phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with subject "Home Warranty Repair and Replacement Coverage. $50 Off. Limited Time."

What to do?  Report them, goto bottom of page. 

From : americanhomewarranty.net <classes@strepidemical.com> Subject :  Home Warranty Repair and Replacement Coverage. $50 Off. Limited Time.

PHISHING LINKs;

1. http://strepidemical.com/?xxxxxxxxxxxxx

How to tell this is a Phishing email ?

1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
2. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the  company's website then forget it.
3. The best way is to 

How to examine Email Message Source ?

Now lets look at message source

1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.

Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from apple.com.

Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
2. Gmail.com->More (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing

If you have received this email take it further at 

1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

Report phishing at Microsoft and subsequently government agencies

1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx
2. Report Phishing Sites | CISA
3. Home - Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (fightspam.gc.ca)

Windows Rename Multiple Files and Folders with Regex - Alternative

PowerRename is a new tool that allows you a bulk rename and modify a large number of filenames. It's part of the Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. 

However, PowerRename does not work on Windows  7, so I was on a quest to find a tool that was open source and could work on Windows 7 and above.

Top Solution To Rename Files and Folders on Windows

StExBar: The ultimate tool for Windows Explorer is open source and fully supports regular expressions with replacements. This is written in C and is incredibly fast. Runs on Windows 7 and up. Stefans Tools is well maintained and been around for years. See my post on the best regex tester application, it will blow you away. 

In image below, we are using regular expression: 

(\d*)_(.*)

to rename folders from 100_Project to 100Project (removing underscore), 

with replacement groups: $1$2

Install

Download and install x64 bit of StExBar - Stefans Tools (stefankueng.com)

Goto View->Toolbars->StExBar to show Stephan's Explorer Bar 

Open Source

https://github.com/stefankueng/tools/tree/main

Windows Rename Multiple Files and Folders with Regex - Powerrename Alternative

PowerRename is a new tool that allows you a bulk rename and modify a large number of filenames. It's part of the Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. 

However, PowerRename does not work for Windows 7 so I was on a quest to find a tool that was open source and could work on Windows 7 and above.

Solution To Rename Files and Folders on Windows

Métamorphose File and Folder Renamer is open source and supports regular expressions. This is written in python and is incredibly fast. Runs on Windows 7 and up. 

In example below, we are choosing DIR (for directories to be renamed) and
regular expression : \s|_|\. to remove spaces, underscores and periods from folder names.

Install

https://sourceforge.net/projects/file-folder-ren/ 

Use download button and unzip into a folder, run metamorphose.exe. Ignore the errors.  The installer is broken. 

Open Source

https://github.com/metamorphose

Enhancement Request

Enhancement request to enable regex matched groups such as $1, to be used in the "Replacement with (blank to delete)" field as a replacement value. 

Change Request - Enable Regex Groups in the replacement / rename field · Issue #8 · timinaust/metamorphose2 (github.com)

Update - Better Choice
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